I put a lot of thought into marking the placement of my design ... and came up with the following idea; those straight cut-out lines on either side of my stencil were masked with clear, see-through sticky tape, and are intended to be a sort of "window" through which I was hoping to see the lines of red tacking stitches, in order to put the screen down as accurately as possible. Of course, you could just put the screen down on a large piece, print with a wide margin all around, and then cut out your pieces afterwards, but I had only exactly just enough of this pale grey silk/linen for my pieces and needed to be as fabric economical as possible. This approach worked beautifully! and I would definitely do this again if I wanted to print a border design like this.
...and Eureka!
I quite liked my design, and how it turned out, but the foiling glue is trickier and even messier than regular fabric paint, if you can imagine! so I'm not sure if I would do this technique again. The glue is like a close relative of epoxy, and if you make the mistake of getting any on your fingers it rapidly turns into a tenacious tacky stain and nothing short of Gumption will get it off. No kidding!
Below should give an idea of how I'm going to use these pieces, when I get around to it. Sometime, soon.
I'm really going to have to get cracking on the sewing machine :)
